GP Animator Desk by Calm Dude is a particularly powerful tool designed to cater to the workflow of drawn animation. The blend of this add on is made unique by features like enhanced navigation, onion skinning, and reference management to aid further in the drawing process.
Calm Dude – Gp Animator Desk Features
- Enhanced Navigation: Enhanced navigation buttons for the 3D View make interactions with the other users more efficient.
Traditional Onion Skinning: An easy-to-use onion skin switcher that is more intuitive and sheds better light on the past and future frames.
- Draw with Hints Mode: This presentation mode what hints directions and order to take the strokes in helps in preparing keyframes.
- Reference Management System: A new panel dedicated to reference drawing modification and management in Drawing Mode, enabling Shift’n’Trace and other techniques.
- Customizable Onion Skin Colors: Set up with four preset colours, it allows users to quickly switch between different onion skin settings and enhance productivity.
- Extended Frame Management: Expanded frame management and navigation options designed for efficient working.
- Fast Tool Switching: Accessing common tools is done through overlayed buttons or Toolbox panel, as well as hotkeys.
- Selective Rendering: The ability to render only Grease Pencil frames without having to export the whole animated sequence.
Gp Animator Desk Documentation
Image 1: Additional navigation and layout buttons on 3dView.

Image 2: A panel for managing and transforming reference drawings directly within Drawing Mode.
